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		<title>Why Consent? And Why Sociocracy?</title>
		<link>http://www.adeeperdemocracy.org/decision-making/why-consent-and-why-sociocracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Villines</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Decision-Making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cohousing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consensus decision-making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inclusiveness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been participating in groups that make decisions by consensus since about 1972. The definition of consensus then and now is exactly the same as the sociocratic definition of consent — not whether I agree, but under the circumstances whether I think this is the best decision we can make at this time. Or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People&#8217;s Rights Amendment</title>
		<link>http://www.adeeperdemocracy.org/personal-rights-responsibilities/peoples-rights-amendment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adeeperdemocracy.org/personal-rights-responsibilities/peoples-rights-amendment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Villines</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In the Workplace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Rights & Responsibilities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equal rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free exercise of religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom of association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom of speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom of the press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People's Rights Amendment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States Constitution]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adeeperdemocracy.org/?p=799</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, the Court has enthroned corporations, permitting them not only all kinds of special economic rights but now, amazingly, moving to grant them the same political rights as the people. Jamie Raskin, Maryland State Senator Constitutional law expert, Washington College of Law American University &#160; The movement to reserve the rights ensured by the US Constitution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Pivotal Consensus Experience</title>
		<link>http://www.adeeperdemocracy.org/decision-making/a-pivotal-consensus-experience/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adeeperdemocracy.org/decision-making/a-pivotal-consensus-experience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Villines</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Decision-Making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cohousing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consensus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adeeperdemocracy.org/?p=787</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1972 with a group of parents forming a cooperative school, predominantly young Yale faculty members who had moved to town to join a new college. We were committed to diversity and having a hard time recruiting people of color and from a different socio-economic class. We were having an equally hard time finding appropriate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consent &amp; Responsibility</title>
		<link>http://www.adeeperdemocracy.org/decision-making/consent-responsibility/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adeeperdemocracy.org/decision-making/consent-responsibility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Villines</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Decision-Making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consensus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[objections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[standing aside]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adeeperdemocracy.org/?p=782</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In dynamic governance there is no option to stand aside — the only options are consent or object. If you don&#8217;t have tangible objections, ones that can be teased out and addressed, then you consent. It maybe a passive consent, &#8220;I don&#8217;t see any reason not to do this&#8221;, or an active consent, &#8220;I really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Co-Operative Identity</title>
		<link>http://www.adeeperdemocracy.org/workplace/co-operative-identity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adeeperdemocracy.org/workplace/co-operative-identity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Villines</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In the Workplace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[co-operatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Co-operative Alliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[members]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[principles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[values]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adeeperdemocracy.org/?p=775</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The following Statement on the Co-operative Identity is from the website of the International Co-operative Alliance. It was updated in 2007; previous versions are available there. While applying these principles will ensure a democratically governed organization, they will do so only for the members. Unless the whole organization is composed of workers or the workers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suma Wholefoods, Elland, Yorkshire, UK</title>
		<link>http://www.adeeperdemocracy.org/workplace/suma-wholefoods-elland-yorkshire-uk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adeeperdemocracy.org/workplace/suma-wholefoods-elland-yorkshire-uk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Villines</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In the Workplace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cooperatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democratic businesses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ellnd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suma Wholefoods]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[worker owned]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adeeperdemocracy.org/?p=771</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cooperatives are democratic organizations as far as their members go but are often not very democratic in their governance of workers, particularly when the workers are a whole different group of people from their members. And members are, after all, investors. Worker-owned businesses may also be as autocratic in their governance as the most hierarchical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Co-Operatives UK</title>
		<link>http://www.adeeperdemocracy.org/workplace/co-operatives-uk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adeeperdemocracy.org/workplace/co-operatives-uk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Villines</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In the Workplace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cooperatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suma Wholefoods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trade associations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adeeperdemocracy.org/?p=769</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Co-operatives UK is the national trade association in the United Kingdom that campaigns for co-operation and works to promote, develop, and unite co-operative enterprises that in the UK include High Street consumer-owned co-operatives to pubs and football clubs, healthcare to agriculture, credit unions to community owned shops, pubs to public relations, wind farms to web [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CEB Blog, New Legal Information &amp; Resources</title>
		<link>http://www.adeeperdemocracy.org/worth-reading/ceb-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adeeperdemocracy.org/worth-reading/ceb-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Villines</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Worth Reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CEB blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Bar of California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University of California]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adeeperdemocracy.org/?p=765</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just discovered a blog by the University of California and the State Bar of California designed to support their continuing education program for attorneys. While the information is detailed and authoritative it is also written in plain English that can be understood by non-attorneys. http://blog.ceb.com Reading such resources even on a casual basis builds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rights of Condo Owners</title>
		<link>http://www.adeeperdemocracy.org/sociocracy/rights-of-condo-owners/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adeeperdemocracy.org/sociocracy/rights-of-condo-owners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 16:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Villines</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In Communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sociocracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[board of directors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[condominiums]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeowner associations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Majority Vote]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[preferential voting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[right to assemble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[right to information]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[right to speak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[right to vote]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[super-majority vote]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transparency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adeeperdemocracy.org/?p=759</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a Google Alert set up for &#8220;condo governance&#8221; that flags some interesting articles and the daily list of titles is revealing even if I don&#8217;t click through to read the articles. As would be expected, the current economic crisis aside, most are about delinquencies, condos going under because of bad management or foreclosures, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ordering Copies of We the People</title>
		<link>http://www.adeeperdemocracy.org/worth-reading/ordering-copies-of-we-the-people/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adeeperdemocracy.org/worth-reading/ordering-copies-of-we-the-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 19:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Villines</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Worth Reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book orders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[We the People]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You can now order copies of We the People: Consenting to a Deeper Democracy through the A Deeper Democracy website. They are available as individual copies and in bulk orders of 10 and 20. Links are in the navigation menu above. Shipping to countries other than the United States and Europe is still a problem [...]]]></description>
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